Ballestas Group
- Sep 9, 2022
- 1 min read

Actions to reduce Inflation

The interest rate curve is moving up after the latest comments from the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, in which he reaffirmed his more hawkish stance and his commitment to aggressive monetary tightening to contain inflation. Given these recent statements, the market internalizes with an 86% probability an increase of 75 basic points during the next meeting on September 21.

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